No business like snow business

A pedestrian braves the snow in northeastern Philadelphia on Saturday, Dec. 19. A major winter storm buried the Mid-Atlantic and East coast over the weekend. Joseph Kaczmarek/AP

A deer is pictured in Knole Park, Sevenoaks, Kent, England on Dec. 18. Carl de Souza/AFP/Newscom

In this photo provided by the San Francisco Zoo, Pike the Polar Bear spreads herself out in the snow near a holiday-themed gift box filled with bear treats, on Dec. 21 at the San Francisco Zoo. Approximately 10 tons of ice was turned in snow and shot into the polar bear exhibit to celebrate the first day of winter and to create a fun playground for two of the Zoo's polar bears. George Nikitin/AP

Chayenne McLucas, 3, of Hockessin, Del., clears the snow off her driveway on Dec. 19 during a winter storm. Suchat Pederson/The Wilmington News-Journal/AP

Winter swimmers play a game on the snow-covered Songhua river in Harbin, China's Heilongjiang province, on Dec. 19. Sheng Li/Reuters

A passenger pushes a taxi from a snowdrift after heavy snowfall in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on Dec. 18. Snow also fell in Britain, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands and weather experts forecast worse to come, with disruption especially in Scotland and northern England. Alexander Khudoteply/AFP/Newscom

A man dressed as a tiger, the Chinese calender sign for 2010, helps a council worker to clear snow in a bid to warm himself on Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine on Dec. 22. Nataliya Slipchuk/AFP/Newscom

With horse racing in the Britain badly hit by the severe winter weather the gallops at Middleham, England took on a Christmas card look as the Pennines, low rising mountain range, surrounding the gallops were covered with deep snow on Dec. 21. John Giles/AP

Hikers are seen in the snow near the "Grosser Arber" summit in the Bavarian Forest near Bayerisch Eisenstein, Germany, on Dec. 21. Armin Weigel/DPA/Newscom

A ferry transports people over the icy Elbe river near Rogaetz, Germany, on Dec. 22. German commuters dealt with significant delays due to severe winter conditions all over Germany. Jens Wolf/DPA/Newscom

In this photo taken on Dec. 14, skier Errol Kerr, who will represent Jamaica in the Vancouver Olympics, slides to a stop after making a practice run at Alpine Meadows Ski resort in Alpine Meadows, Calif. Most Jamaicans have never seen snow, but this young skier will be wearing the tropical island's colors to Vancouver's slopes in 2010, and could bring home the Caribbean's first winter Olympic medal. Kerr, born to an American mother and a Jamaican father, grew up a dual citizen between the Lake Tahoe region of the Sierra Nevada, where he moved with his mother as a child, and Westmoreland, Jamaica's westernmost parish. Rich Pedroncelli/AP

Youths play in the snow near the Pyramid entrance of the Louvre Museum in Paris on Dec. 17 as winter weather hits the French capital. John Schults/Reuters

Liz Vail finishes a snowman she helped to build outside the Pour House Bar and Grille during a "nor'easter" winter snow storm in Boston, Mass. on Dec. 20. The storm took a big bite out of retail sales on one of the busiest shopping weekends of the year. Brian Snyder/Reuters

Bo, the Obama family dog, sits in the snow outside of the Brady Briefing Room of the White House on Dec. 19 in Washington. Mandel Ngan/AFP/Newscom

A snowman with seaweed hair is pictured near the West Pier on Brighton Beach in Brighton, England, on Dec. 18. Glyn Kirk/AFP/Newscom

Ice has formed on a millwheel near the western German town of Neuastenberg on Dec. 19. More snowfall and cold temperatures are forecast for the next few days. AFP/DDP/Lennart Preiss/Newscom